permaculture

[Toby Hemenway <toby@patternliteracy.com>]

Beeja and everyone,

A note of clarification: Taking a PDC does not make you a "certified 
permaculture designer." It's an introductory course. I urge people not to say 
that, as it's a false claim. My PDC certificate from Mollison says that I was 
now a "permaculture design trainee," and that's what the certificate means. 
It is the first step toward becoming a designer, which, in the system BIll 
set up, meant that after two years of additional, full-time work or its 
equivalent in design under a mentor, you could then receive a diploma in 
permaculture design, and then maybe call yourself a designer.

The PDC, at 72-100 hours or so of class, is roughly the same amount of class 
time as two college courses. If you took chemistry 101 and 102, you would 
never call yourself a chemist, right? (Ka-BOOM!) Same goes for the PDC.

BTW, attachments are always scrubbed from this list--there was no attachment. 
Good luck with the course, at any rate!

Toby
http://patternliteracy.com



On Oct 17, 2010, at 6:26 AM, b e e j a ... wrote:

> Hello Fellow Earth Lovers,
> 
> For those of you interested to become a certified Permaculture Designer, we
> are hosting another course this November in Darjeeling on 14th -28th. This
> is the longest running PDC course happening in India for the last 7 years!
> 
> Come join the fun and help spread the awareness of sustainable lifestyle
> design!
> 
> Attached is the flyer and registration form.
> 
> Hope to see you there!
> 
> Warm Regards,
> Ameli
> ...
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